A MEASURED SOVEREIGNTY: THE POLITICS OF NATION-MAKING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA1

Abstract I Resume In this paper, we argue that the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal principals to the British Columbia Treaty Process advance radically different positions on the issue of Aboriginal self-determination. We categorize the two emergent positions as Aboriginal rationalism and governmentali...

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Main Authors: Andrew Woolford, R. S. Ratner
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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First Nations
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.545.1047
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/menzies/documents/measured.pdf
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Summary:Abstract I Resume In this paper, we argue that the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal principals to the British Columbia Treaty Process advance radically different positions on the issue of Aboriginal self-determination. We categorize the two emergent positions as Aboriginal rationalism and governmentalist prudentialism-the former bent on inflecting negotiations in the direction of Aboriginal sovereignty, and the latter aiming to confine Aboriginal control to forms of self-governance that integrate First Nations into the circuits of global capital and the retrenchments of the neoliberal state. We consider whether this crucial negotiation impasse can be resolved through the notion of a 'measured sovereignty '. Dans cet article, nous demontrons que les responsables en charge de la Procedure du Traite de la Columbie britannique presentent des positions radicalement differentes quanta la question de I'autodetennination, selon qu'ils sont autochtones ou non. Nous plac;ons les deux positions emergentes soit dans la categorie du rationalisme autochtone, soit dans celie du prudentialisme gouvernemental--Le premier etant resolu afaire pencher les negociations vers una souverainete amerindienne, Ie second visant aconfiner Ie contraIe autochtoneades fonnes d'autogouvernance qui integrent les Premieres Nations dans les circuits du capitalisme global et les retranchements de I'etat neo-Iiberal. Nous examinons la possibilite que cette negociation cruciale puisse sortir de cette impasse par Ie biais d'une "souverainete mesuree".

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